Dried Willow Leaves

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- 11/01/2011 at 7:01 PM
  MooBunnay
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  I have discovered that the heat here in Texas in the summer is great for at least one thing – drying bunny treats!
  
  We planted a willow tree in our backyard a couple years ago, and this year it was finally big enough to trim. I got a bunch of branches, and made homemade willow wreaths. But I found out that even simpler than making willow wreaths was drying the willow leaves! After stripping the leaves from the branches, I laid them out in the trays of my food dehydrator. After just one day outside the willow leaves were dried to a crisp. I put them in a salad bowl and used them as treats for the next week. I also took the roses that I trimmed from my garden and put them on the dehydrator trays and used them for treats as well.
  
  Please note that I don’t use any pesticides on my plants, so they are OK to feed to bunnies.
- 11/02/2011 at 7:13 AM
  Sam and Lady's Human
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  Thats so awesome!!!!
- 11/04/2011 at 12:41 PM
  BinkyBunny
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  I am envious! Willow leaves are like Vivian’s drug of choice! When I begin to put down a wreath for her, she literally runs over, grunts and tries to box it out of my hand to hurry me up. And then she just munches away in complete bliss.
- 11/04/2011 at 4:24 PM
  Lazee
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  this is so good to hear, I have a willow tree and a weeping cherry (can they eat the cherry branches?) Do I need to dry or can I just clip and give both leaves and stems/branches? I have a dehydrator so I can if I need to.
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